Valerij Popov
Number of games in database: 383
Years covered: 1980 to 2008
Current FIDE rating: 2542
Highest rating achieved in database: 2592
Overall record: +131 -78 =169 (57.0%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      5 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  King's Indian (29)      E92 E94 E91 E97 E60  English (22)      A15 A17 A13 A11 A16  Queen's Gambit Declined (18)      D37 D38 D30 D31 D35  Slav (17)      D15 D11 D19 D12 D17  Queen's Pawn Game (15)      D02 A45 A41 A50 A40  Nimzo Indian (11)      E32 E21 E39 E46 E34	With the Black pieces:  Sicilian (48)      B90 B97 B22 B50 B92  Slav (34)      D11 D19 D17 D10 D13  Sicilian Najdorf (29)      B90 B97 B92 B95  Queen's Gambit Declined (23)      D31 D30 D37 D35 D39  French Defense (15)      C01 C03 C07 C18 C11  Semi-Slav (14)      D45 D46 D44 D43

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page 1 of 16; games 1-25 of 383  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Savon vs V Popov   1-0 58 1980 Rostov on Don tt B88 Sicilian, Fischer-Sozin Attack 2. V Popov vs V Vepkhvishvili   ½-½ 83 1990 Open Teteven E60 King's Indian Defense 3. V Popov vs Svidler   0-1 40 1993 St.Petersburg op E61 King's Indian 4. V Popov vs Tseshkovsky   0-1 71 1993 St Petersburg op A45 Queen's Pawn Game 5. A Gorbatow vs V Popov   0-1 25 1993 Memorial M.Chigorin C33 King's Gambit Accepted 6. L Totsky vs V Popov   1-0 38 1994 Orel AF-ch, Cat.9 B20 Sicilian 7. Geller vs V Popov   ½-½ 23 1994 St Petersburg B06 Robatsch 8. S Kiselev vs V Popov   1-0 54 1994 Orel AF-ch, Cat.9 A88 Dutch, Leningrad, Main Variation with c6 9. V Popov vs I Yagupov   1-0 39 1994 Orel AF-ch, Cat.9 A21 English 10. V Popov vs I Zaitsev   ½-½ 79 1994 Orel AF-ch, Cat.9 A45 Queen's Pawn Game 11. V Popov vs M Turov   ½-½ 96 1994 St Petersburg op A15 English 12. V Popov vs E Mukhametov   ½-½ 73 1994 Orel AF-ch, Cat.9 A13 English 13. A Gorbatow vs V Popov   ½-½ 69 1994 Orel AF-ch, Cat.9 A10 English 14. V Neverov vs V Popov   1-0 36 1994 Orel AF-ch, Cat.9 A80 Dutch 15. N Pushkov vs V Popov   1-0 51 1994 Orel AF-ch, Cat.9 A80 Dutch 16. V Popov vs V Komliakov   ½-½ 48 1994 Orel AF-ch, Cat.9 D13 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Exchange Variation 17. V Popov vs N Legky   ½-½ 54 1994 Orel AF-ch, Cat.9 E00 Queen's Pawn Game 18. Khalifman vs V Popov   ½-½ 19 1994 Memorial M.Chigorin A80 Dutch 19. Savon vs V Popov   1-0 42 1994 Orel AF-ch, Cat.9 E10 Queen's Pawn Game 20. V Popov vs Dreev 0-1 40 1995 RUS-chT Kazan D43 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 21. V Popov vs Savon   ½-½ 11 1997 White Nights op D02 Queen's Pawn Game 22. Savon vs V Popov   ½-½ 12 1997 St Petersburg-B E54 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Gligoric System 23. V Popov vs Savon   ½-½ 46 1997 St Petersburg-B A15 English 24. Jobava vs V Popov   0-1 35 1998 Petrov mem D44 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 25. Khalifman vs V Popov   0-1 39 1998 RUS-ch B90 Sicilian, Najdorf  page 1 of 16; games 1-25 of 383

Feb-14-06    SickedChess: This chess player is huge fan of Drawnik but he can draw in just 5 moves! Feb-16-06    SickedChess: Today Popov with white offer a draw to Efimenko but the GM from Ukraine decline and played for the win! Feb-16-06    SickedChess: [Event "Aeroflot Open 2006"] [Site "Moscow"] [Date "2006/2/16"] [Round "09"] [White "Popov, Valerij"] [Black "Efimenko, Zahar"] [Result "0-1"] [Board "14"] [Input "DGT3890"] [Owner "Association of Chess Federations, Moscow"] 1. Nf3 c5 2. c4 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 e6 5. Nc3 Bb4 6. Qd3 Nf6 7. a3 Bc5 8. e3 O-O 9. Be2 Ne5 10. Qc2 b6 11. b4 Be7 12. f4 Ng6 13. h4 h5 14. Bd3 Bb7 15. Nf3 a5 16. Rb1 axb4 17. axb4 d5 18. Ng5 Qc8 19. Bxg6 fxg6 20. Qxg6 d4 21. Ne2 Qxc4 22. Nxd4 Bxb4+ 23. Kf2 Ra2+ 24. Rb2 Bd5 25. Kg3 Bc3 26. Rxa2 Qxa2 27. Ndf3 Qa4 28. Qd3 Rc8 29. Rd1 b5 30. Kh2 Ng4+ 31. Kg1 Nf6 32. Kh2 Qc4 33. Qxc4 bxc4 34. Kg3 Ra8 35. Bd2 Bb2 36. e4 Nxe4+ 37. Nxe4 Bxe4 0-1 Sep-10-06    BIDMONFA: Valerij Popov POPOV, Valerij http://www.bidmonfa.com/popov_valer... _

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